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Escape Decision Neurons - Mouse Midbrain
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Fright and flight: deciding when to escape

How does your brain decide what to do in a threatening situation? A new paper published in Nature describes a mechanism by which the brain classifies the level of a threat and decides when to escape.

21 June 2018
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Disentangling the interneuron web of learning

Neuroscientists have simultaneously imaged the activity of four different types of neocortical neurons and created a computational model describing how responses and interactions of these cell types change during learning.

21 May 2018
SWC Building waves
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Athena Akrami to join Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

18 May 2018
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New barcode-based tracing method uncovers logic of single neuron projections

28 March 2018
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Neuroscientists identify brain circuit that integrates head motion with visual signals

Study highlights role of primary visual cortex in integrating head and visual movement signals.

15 March 2018
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How does the brain’s spatial map change when we change the shape of the room?

Our ability to navigate the world, and form episodic memories, relies on an accurate representation of the environment around us. This cognitive map, which is thought to reside in the hippocampus of the brain, gives us the flexibility we need to find our way around in familiar places and to store the events we experience in our day-to-day lives.

8 March 2018
Mouse Balance Beam
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Identifying circuits that maintain balance

A new study published in Cell Reports describes how a region of the brain called the lateral vestibular nucleus (LVN) is key to maintaining balance and keeping the body on its feet after experiencing a disturbance.

30 January 2018
The structure of part of the olfactory bulb in the brain
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Honeycomb Maze improves current spatial navigation tests

A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as a significant improvement over the current gold standard, the Morris Water Maze.

24 January 2018
Brain under microscope
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Jérôme Lecoq presents technical developments in neuronal recordings and the future of open brain observatories

22 January 2018
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Professor Loren Frank gives scintillating talk on neural substrates of memories and decisions

20 December 2017
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Leading primatologist, Professor Frans de Waal, captivates audience at SWC Annual Lecture 2017

5 December 2017
Image of a Neuropixels probe
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Neuropixels probes could revolutionise neuroscience

The Neuropixels probes will allow scientists to simultaneously record from more individual neurons than ever before.

8 November 2017

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